I. General Planning and Modelling Approaches -- Planning Product Assortment Using Portfolio Optimization -- Rapid Modeling: The Use of Queueing Models to Support Time-Based Competitive Manufacturing -- Process Network Theory and Implementation for Technology Assessment in Manufacturing -- Is Lean Production Really Lean? The Design of a Lean Production System -- The Performance of Kanban Controlled Serial Production Systems -- Capacity Oriented Production Control for a Job Shop Production -- On Solving a Large-Scale Resource Allocation Problem in Production Planning -- Integrated Station Location and Flow Network Design for Manufacturing Systems Layout -- Using Optimization Model to Control Workpiece Rigidity and Deformation in Workholding to Achieve Precision Machining -- A New Approach to Determine the Pose and Dimension of Polygonal Shapes -- II. Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- Problems of Modelling and FMS Control Implementation -- Formal Models for Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- Candidate Rule Selection to Develop Intelligent Scheduling Aids for Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) -- Tool Blocking in Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- III. PPC and CIM -- Architectural Framework for Integrated Production Control Systems -- A New Conceptual Framework for Hierarchically Integrated PPS-Systems -- Issues in Specifying Planning Horizons for Production Planning within CIM Environments -- IV. Scheduling -- A Closed Loop Control Heuristic for Scheduling a Manufacturing System Subject to Random Setup Times -- Resource- and Time Window-Constraint Production Scheduling with Alternative Process Plans: An Artificial Intelligence Approach -- Robust Scheduling and Game-Theoretic Control for Short-Term Scheduling of Job-Shops -- The Two-Stage Hybrid-Flowshop Scheduling Problem with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times -- Shop-Floor Scheduling and Control: A Systems Approach -- Spatially-Oriented Production Planning and Scheduling -- V. Lot-Sizing and Inventory Control -- Models for Integrated Inventory Control by EDI for A Single Supplier and Multiple Buyers -- Optimal Inventory Policy in Assembly Systems with Component Commonality -- Valuation of Leadtime Reduction in Multi-Stage Production Systems -- Nervousness and Reorder Policies in Rolling Horizon Environments -- Some Valid Constraints for the Capacitated Assembly Line Lotsizing Problem -- DLSP for Multi-Item Batch Production -- Information Production Functions in Dynamic Lot-Sizing -- VI. Quality -- How Much Quality Is Enough? -- Decision Methodology for Product Quality in Flow Lines -- VII. Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms -- Multiple-Step-Ahead Prediction by Hierarchical Neural Networks -- Integrating Neural Nets, Simulation, and Genetic Algorithms for Real-Time Scheduling -- A Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling with Resource Consumption -- Genetic Algorithms in Problem Space for Sequencing Problems -- List of Sponsors.